Hi,
>
> =====>" Browsing the network with huge number of binary files may be a
> common activity of windows users. User may just browse the directory to
> look for some information, but never execute any of those
> programs...bringing down those large binaries may really slow down the
> performance without any gain ( I mean no cache hit in near future ).
>
> Is there any interest to solve this problem? Any ideas?"
One could add block level caching. It's not that complicated - the
kernel already knows about sparse files, so if a block isn't found in our
cache file you fetch the surrounding 64k.
In a mobile environment this can lead to disappointment, e.g. you might
miss a block of WP.
>
> ===> "I understand after the first time cache by Venus next access to
> files will be faster compare to any other protocol hitting wire. But I
> don't understand how its faster compare to local disk browsing. Is there
> something I am missing?"
>
Coda has a very sophisticated directory lookup cache, which is faster than
the Windows lookup operations for FAT. We are talking about very small
differences
though.
- Peter -
